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With all the focus on the Evangelion Movies for the past year or so, it's easy to forget that Manga Entertainment actually has other titles. Below are some miscelaneous items from Manga's recent PR covering some ongoing contests, upcoming theatrical showings and recent releases.

Astro Boy Contest: And now that you've entered the Death and Rebirth Contest, might as well try your luck in the Astro Boy Contest. Ten winners will each take home a limited-edition Astro Boy cel (background included), the first three volumes of the Astro Boy VHS series, plus a bunch of other cool Manga prizes. This contest is open to residents of the US and Canada over 18 years of age. http://www.astro-boy.net/contest.html.

Ghost Sweeper Mikami: As the leader of one of Japan's most successful ghost- busting agencies, Mikami is equipped to do battle with just about any supernatural adversary who crosses her path... until she comes up against Nosferatu, a vampire lord systematically turning the city's inhabitants into mindless zombies to usher in a second Dark Age.

Vampire Wars: International criminal and spy Kousaburo Kuki must protect film superstar Lamia Vindaw from both the CIA and a twisted vampire cult when it's discovered that her blood holds the key to resolving an ancient dispute between contending interstellar factions.

Psychic Wars: A strange growth on a mysterious old woman is brilliant surgeon Ukyo Retsu's entr?e into a 5,000-year-old battle for the fate of Japan as he travels through time to defend the future from invasion by a race of demons bent on subjugating humankind.

Travel back in time (and maybe have your gender swapped) to seven different periods of Japanese history, all from the comfort of your couch.― The history of Japanese civilization is expansive, predating the Common Era by 10,000 years (the Jomon period). There's much more ground to cover compared to what kids get in U.S. history classes in high school, which rarely cover anything before the Boston T...

Junji Ito's death-stench horror gets the deluxe treatment with a new hardcover omnibus, but the subject matter might not work for everyone.― Junji Ito is inarguably one of the masters of horror manga, utilizing both horror (physical revulsion) and terror (psychological reaction) to create gut-churning tales of the world gone mad. To a degree, he carries this out in his two-volume series Gyo from 200...

Voice actor/director/professional Dungeons & Dragons player Liam O'Brien returns to the podcast after a 5-year hiatus to discuss his roles in Fate/Zero and Sailor Moon, along with the landscape for anime voice acting now and what it's like to be Gollum.― ANNCast Episode 234: Podcastoes O'Brien Get the Flash Player to see this player. Voice actor/director/professional Dungeons & Dragons player Liam ...

If you went to an anime convention this summer or have used the internet lately, you may notice anime fans seem to have fallen in love with Steven Universe. Why? Because the show loves them right back.― If you've been to an anime convention in the past year, you've probably seen colorful, gem-studded cosplay like this filling the hallways. Photo credit links: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom...

If you've got questions for the director of the high-flying fantasy series The Pilot's Love Song, we've potentially got answers for you!― We've been given the opportunity to interview The Pilot's Love Song director Toshimasa Suzuki, and we need your help! NISA, who will be releasing the fantasy action drama The Pilot's Love Song on bluray September 22nd, asked for fan questions for Mr. Suzuki, whos...

Bee-Train's 2001 girls-with-guns classic returns on Blu-Ray, and holds up surprisingly well, despite some mediocre animation.― Not all older series deserve the Blu-Ray treatment. For some it is because the show just isn't as iconic as people might like to think, while for others it's because the quality was never BD worthy in the first place. Noir, fortunately, does hold up well enough that its tran...

Egypt Arc is JoJo in peak condition, as memorable and engaging an adventure as you could hope for. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is back.― When we last left our heroes, they'd just arrived on the shores of Egypt, escaping the literal jaws of defeat in order to finally save Jotaro's mother. The journey there had been a lengthy and sometimes inconsistent one, with their various adventures indeed being plen...

The creator of the hit manga, recently adapted into a popular anime series, talks about her inspirations, how she got her start, and what it's like to watch your manga become a TV show.― As you might guess from the story, the main character of the story is a high school roughneck named Ryu Yamada. Yamada meets cute, quiet, and studious Urara Shiraishi, who is his complete opposite in almost every wa...